AI Creative to Print
Graphic & Brand Designer, AI-First
Design the ad statics, brand systems, website mock-ups, and print pieces our clients run on. You work AI-first, with tools like Higgsfield, Artlist, Nano Banana, and OpenAI's image and video models, and you finish every file by hand in Adobe before it ships.Contract · Remote (Worldwide)
Applying includes a short timed skills assessment. Applications without a completed assessment aren't considered.
Why This Role Matters
AB Marketing Group is a 9-year marketing agency serving local and regional businesses across the US. Our clients need more creative than ever: paid ads that want many variations of every concept, social calendars that never stop, brand kits, website mock-ups, and the printed pieces that still carry real weight for a local business, from storefront posters to trade-show banners. We're hiring a Graphic & Brand Designer who is ready for how design works now. You'll use AI image and video tools every day to move faster and explore further, and you'll bring the design fundamentals those tools don't have.
An AI tool can produce an image in seconds. It can't tell you whether the hierarchy works, whether the type is on brand, whether that logo is the real one, or whether the file will hold up printed at 24 by 36 inches. That judgment is the job. This seat exists because design requests across our client accounts now land on people whose main job is something else. You'll own that work end to end: the concept, the AI-assisted generation, the finishing in Adobe, and the file that goes to the media buyer, the client, or the printer. Our clients pay premium rates, and their creative should look like it.
What You'll Do
Design static ads for Meta and Google at volume: real variations across angles, hooks, and formats (1:1, 4:5, 9:16, and display sizes), built from on-brand templates so a media buyer can actually test them.
Use AI image and video tools (Higgsfield, Artlist, Nano Banana, and OpenAI's image models and Sora) to generate scenes, product settings, backgrounds, and motion, starting from references rather than guesswork.
Finish every AI output by hand: set real type and the real logo file, fix the artifacts AI leaves behind, and hold alignment, proportion, and hierarchy to a professional standard.
Take approved concepts to print: upscale and retouch for the final size, convert to CMYK with the printer's profile, build bleed and safe zones, and export press-ready PDFs for posters, banners, postcards, menus, signage, and vehicle wraps.
Build brand identity systems for clients: logos, color, type, and guidelines their team and ours can actually use, plus the templates that keep every future piece on brand.
Mock up websites and landing pages in Figma before they are built, so the client and our developers are looking at the same page.
Design social graphics, carousels, story frames, thumbnails, and cover images for a portfolio of client accounts.
Take design requests from our account managers, media buyers, and project managers, turn them around on schedule, and flag early when a brief is missing something.
Keep your work organized in each client's shared folder: layered master files, clearly named exports, and brand assets where the next person can find them.
What You'll Bring
Must-Haves
3+ years of professional graphic design with client work you can show. A portfolio is required, and we look at everything you send.
A portfolio that includes at least one brand identity system and at least one piece that went to print, alongside digital and social work.
Fluency in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. Canva is fine for a quick social post, but anything that ships to print or becomes a brand asset is built in Adobe.
Daily, hands-on use of AI image and video tools in real client or brand work, not just experiments. You can explain which tool you reach for and why.
Print production knowledge: resolution at final size, CMYK and color profiles, bleed and safe zones, vector versus raster, and how to talk to a printer.
Strong design fundamentals: typography, layout, hierarchy, and color. You know when an AI image is beautiful and still wrong for the brand.
Judgment about what AI output can't be trusted with: rendering text and logos, keeping products and faces accurate, and anything you don't have the rights to use commercially.
Speed with quality: you can hold a queue of requests across many clients and deliver on schedule without the craft slipping.
Clear written English and responsive async communication with a US Eastern (New York) based team, with daily overlap for briefs and feedback.
Self-directed work style: you don't need to be managed, reminded, or chased.
Nice-to-Haves
Figma depth beyond mock-ups: components, auto layout, and design systems.
Motion design in After Effects, or turning statics into short motion ads with AI video tools.
Direct-response ad creative for Meta or Google campaigns, and the habit of asking which variations actually won.
Large-format and specialty print: vehicle wraps, trade-show displays, storefront signage, packaging.
Photo retouching and compositing depth in Photoshop, plus upscaling tools such as Topaz or Magnific.
Agency background: you've designed against briefs, brand kits, and deadlines for someone else's clients.
Bilingual English/Spanish.
What Success Looks Like
First 30 Days
Learn our tools, our shared folders, and the brand kits for your first accounts.
Deliver your first ad statics and social pieces on time, with revision rounds getting shorter as you learn each client.
Take an AI concept all the way to a print-ready file the printer accepts on the first send.
Flag missing inputs early instead of guessing.
First 90 Days
Owning statics, AI creative, and print production for a steady book of accounts, on schedule, every week.
Media buyers getting real test variations from you, not color swaps, and knowing which ones won.
Brand templates in place for your accounts, so anyone on the team can make an on-brand piece.
Established as the first call for anything visual that isn't video: statics, mock-ups, brand, and print.
What Makes You Successful Here
You treat AI tools like a fast junior designer: useful, often wrong, and never the final word.
You design for the ad, the brand, and the printer, not the portfolio.
You start from references and a clear idea, so you spend minutes fixing instead of hours prompting.
You take feedback fast and make the revision better than the note asked for.
You flag problems early. Silence doesn't solve anything.
Team Structure
You'll report to our Creative Director, who sets the creative bar for everything we produce and signs off on the AI tools and workflows we use. Requests come from our account managers, media buyers, and project managers. You'll work alongside our video editors and on-site content creators, and with our web team when a mock-up becomes a build. You're an independent contractor on our remote creative team, with no middle management, a direct line to the people who own each account, and room to grow as the client roster grows. If your strength is video editing rather than design, look at our Content Editor roles instead.
Ready to Apply?
Apply through the form below. We review every application personally and reach out within a few business days if there's a fit.
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